Simon Hickinbotham

Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.

After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.

2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

This is great - bought it last year and keep coming back to it

YouTube video by Tystion - Topic Fisher Price vs Tonka

youtu.be/D9C0rqr4Ses?...

this is how design works

More cool colour palette stuff

POEM writing poems keeping rabbits each day the shite to be cleared and fresh straw to be laid

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)

here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~

The Grand Teton mountains in GT National Park as the sun sets behind them. Sun streaks reach above the peaks as night begins to settle in.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut

Pic of the day
#photography

GitHub - phreda4/r3: r3 programing language - ColorForth inspired r3 programing language - ColorForth inspired. Contribute to phreda4/r3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

r3forth is a programming language and environment inspired by ColorForth github.com/phreda4/r3

Doing art badly is good and sacred

My glitch-proto-diy-try-stuff band thing howbuildingsfail is first on at this tomorrow... See you down the front!

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Up there with the best!

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

I don't think people appreciate enough the fact that, at a time where global warming was approaching an inflection point yet renewable energy was finally becoming economically viable, we decided to squander that opportunity because literal death cultists decided we needed Infinite Bullshit Machines.

Their best

"Keep pedalling faster or they'll leave!"

See ya Sly

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#emomsky

EMOM York! WXJL tonight etc.

Performers: stick your name down in the discussion for this event if you want to play, or get in touch with North Facing Garden or Simon Hickinbotham on Facebook or by email: sjh436@gmail.com or on bluesky @franticspider.

A picture of a tree canopy exhibiting crown shyness where each tree has a gap between the uppermost leaves and branches of itself and its neighbour.

Crown shyness. Pretty Zen, no? Stare. Lose yourself. Come back though.

Roxy Music frequently appeared on German music show Muzikladen. On this day in 1974, they performed "Psalm" live.

If I was nearer I'd go!

The same mRNA technology used in COVID vaccines is now cutting melanoma recurrence and death nearly in half.

@catgyoung.bsky.social

Kunstformen der Natur Leipzig und Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1899-1904. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47388109

Kunstformen der Natur Leipzig und Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1899-1904. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47388109) #nature #illustration #art

such a lovely thing to think about

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Try the Jolly Tap when you go!

YouTube video by scoorieboy Scars - Adult ery

#70sTop30 (unranked)

24. Scars - Adult/ery

Released in 1979 on the Fast Product label. The 'Adultery/Horrowshow' single is surely one of the finest Scottish post-punk releases.

Give this 5 seconds, see what you think

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.